Re: XeTeX encoding problem

[Gavin Smith]

On 16 January 2016 at 08:48, Masamichi HOSODA <address@hidden> wrote:
> These packages can be set independently Japanese fonts and alphabetic fonts.
>
> LuaTeX-ja
> https://osdn.jp/projects/luatex-ja/wiki/FrontPage%28en%29
>
> ZXjatype
> http://www.ctan.org/pkg/zxjatype
>
> I think it is *possible* to set the font for Japanese only.
> For example, alphabetic fonts are set to Computer Modern or Latin Modern,
> and Japanese fonts are set to IPA Mincho and IPA Gothic.
>

I know there are "virtual fonts" in the TeX world where a single font
file can combine glyphs from different fonts: I don't know how well
this mechanism works for fonts with more than 256 glyphs though. I'll
see if I can find out.